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The Annals of the Parish-Part18_John Galt(1779-1839)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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There was a visible increase among us of worldlyprosperity in the



course of this year; insomuch that some of the farmers, who were in

the custom of taking their vendibles to the neighbouring towns on



the Tuesdays, the Wednesdays, and Fridays, were led to open a market

on the Saturdays in our own clachan, the which proved a great



convenience. But I cannot take it upon me to say, whether this can

be said to have well begun in the present Ann. Dom., although I know



that in the summer of the ensuing year it was grown into a settled

custom; which I well recollect by the Macadams coming with their



bairns to see Mrs Malcolm, their mother, suddenly on a Saturday

afternoon; on which occasion me and Mrs Balwhidder were invited to



dine with them, and Mrs Malcolm bought in the market for the dinner

that day, both mutton and fowls, such as twenty years before could



not have been got for love or money on such a pinch. Besides, she

had two bottles of red and white wine from the Cross-Keys, luxuries



which, saving in the Breadland House in its best days, could not

have been had in the whole parish, but must have been brought from a



borough town; for Eaglesham Castle is not within the bounds of

Dalmailing, and my observe does not apply to the stock and stores of



that honourablemansion, but only to the dwellings of our own

heritors, who were in general straitened in their circumstances,



partly with upsetting, and partly by the eating rust of family

pride, which hurt the edge of many a clever fellow among them, that



would have done well in the way of trade, but sunk into divors for

the sake of their genteelity.



CHAPTER XXX YEAR 1789

This I have always reflected upon as one of our blessed years. It



was not remarkable for any extraordinaryoccurrence; but there was a

hopefulness in the minds of men, and a planning of new undertakings,



of which, whatever may be the upshot, the devising is ever rich in

the cheerful anticipations of good.



Another new line of road was planned, for a shorter cut to the

cotton-mill, from the main road to Glasgow, and a public-house was



opened in Cayenneville: the latter, however, was not an event that

gave me much satisfaction; but it was a convenience to the



inhabitants, and the carriers that brought the cotton-bags and took

away the yarn twice a-week, needed a place of refreshment. And



there was a stage-coach set up thrice every week from Ayr, that

passed through the town, by which it was possible to travel to



Glasgow between breakfast and dinner time, a thing that could not,

when I came to the parish, have been thought within the compass of



man.

This stage-coach I thought one of the greatest conveniences that had



been established among us; and it enabled Mrs Balwhidder to send a

basket of her fresh butter into the Glasgow market, by which, in the



spring and the fall of the year, she got a great price; for the

Glasgow merchants are fond of excellent eatables, and the payment



was aye ready money--Tam Whirlit the driver paying for the one

basket when he took up the other.



In this year William Malcolm, the youngest son of the widow, having

been some time a tutor in a family in the east country, came to see



his mother, as indeed he had done every year from the time he went

to the college; but this occasion was made remarkable by his



preaching" target="_blank" title="n.说教 a.说教的">preaching in my pulpit. His old acquaintance were curious to hear

him; and I myself had a sort of a wish likewise, being desirous to



know how far he was orthodox; so I thought fit, on the suggestion of

one of the elders, to ask him to preach one day for me, which, after



some fleeching, he consented to do. I think, however, there was a

true modesty in his diffidence, although his reason was a weak one,



being lest he might not satisfy his mother, who had as yet never

heard him. Accordingly, on the Sabbath after, he did preach, and



the kirk was well packed, and I was not one of the least attentive

of the congregation. His sermonassuredly was well put together and



there was nothing to object to in his doctrine; but the elderly




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